Extensible display-rack.



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Patented July 1, 1905.

UIARLES K. HURD, OF .lOVVA CITY, 101V A.

SPCIFICATON forming part of Letters Patent No. '794,019, dated July 4f, 1905.

Application filed December 31, 1904. Serial No. 239'198- T0 all wiz/077@ it mty/ concern.'

13e it known that l, CHARLES K. Henn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Iowa City, in the county of Johnson and State of owa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Extensible Display-Racks; and .l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description oi the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to display-racks on which clothing, skirts, waists, rugs, curtains, carpets, portieres, and other suitable articles may be suspended for display.

',lhe invention comprises a liXed or stationary part and an extensible part; and it consists in certain improvements in construction, 'which will be fully disclosed in the following specification and claims.

ln the accompanying' drawings, which form part ot' this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved display-rack with a part oi the device broken away; Fig. E2, a front elevation of the same; Fig. 3, an elevation of the rear end of the same; Fig. a, an enlarged sectional detail of the lower end of the supporting-bar, and Fig'. 5 a side elevation oi' the 'front friction-roller detached and on au enlarged scale.

Reference being had to the drawings and the designating characters thereon, the' numeral 1 indicates the top ot' a wall case or cabinet, to which the lixed or stationary part of my display-rack is secured at 2. 'ldhe lixed part of my display-raek comprises a vertical siuiiporting-bar 3, having a bifurcated lower end a, depending' from which is an oil-cup 5, a horizontal track-rail 6, secured to lugs 7 on the vertical supporting-bar 3 by a rivet 3, and the rear end ot' said track-rail 6 is bent at a right angle, Yforming a bracket 9, and is secured to the back ot the wall-case 1 by any suitable means. In the bifurcated lower end -l ot' the vertical supporting-bar 3 is a frictionroller 10, mounted on a shaft 11, having' cylindrical antit'riction-bearings 12.

r111e extensible part of my display-rack comprises a horizontal rail 13, which is secured to a couplingl 141 by a rivet 15, a tubular hanging-bar 1G, and a vertical bar 17, having a slot 13, in which are mounted frictionrollers 19 2O on shafts 21 and 22, and into said slot 13 projects the rear end of bar 13, secured by a rivet 23, and through said slot 13 also extends the horizontal traCk-rail 6, as shown in Fig. 1. To the coupling' 111 is attached a handle 24, and said. coupling is provided with a tenon 25, and the vertical bar 17 is provided with a like tenen 26, which respectively enter the front and rear ends oit' the tubular hanging-bar 1G, and which bar is secured by soldering, brazing, or in any preferred manner.

When the dis) ')lay-rack is not in use, it is normally inclosed in a wall case or cabinet. Vhen it is desired to display the goods contained in the cabinet, the salesman seizes the handle 211 and draws out the extensible portion of the rack, which causes the frictionrollers 10, 19, and 2() to revolve as they come in contact with the horizontal rails 6 and 13.

The vertical supportingbar 3, with its bifureated lower end t, forms a guide for the horizontal track-rail 13, and the slot 18 in the vertical bar 17, engaging the bar 6, forms a guide `for the rear end of the eXtensible portion of the display1'ack. The vertical sup porting-bar 3 limits the forward movement of the extensible part oil.I the rack, and the bracket 9 of the horizontal track-rail 6 limits the rearward movement ol the extensible part of the rack.

It is obvious that the display-rack may be made of liat rolled-steel bars or oi tubular steel, as most advantageous.

l-laving thus fully described my invention, what ll claim is 1. A display-rack comprising a lixed part having a vertical bar provided with a biiurcated lower end supporting a roller, and a horizontal bar secured to said vertical bar, and an extensible part having parallel bars, a coupling connecting' the front ends of said bars, and a vertical bar havingaslot and provided with rollers engaging the bar ol the lixed portion.

2. A display-rack com1i rising a liXed part having a vertical supporting-bar bifurcated at its lower end and provided with a roller, and a horizontal bar secured to the vertical IOO bar, and having a bracket at its rear end, and an extensible part having parallel bars, n coupling at the front end to which said bars are connected, and e slotted vertical bar at the rear end engaging the horizontal bar of the Xecl part, and connecting said parallel bars at their rear ends.

In testimony whereof I alix my signature in presence of two Wltnesses.

CHAS. K. HURD.

lTitnesses:

P. C. COAST, HARRY ROWLAND. 

